20th Century History

Rosemary Woodruff Leary has been known only as the wife of Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor-turned-psychedelic high priest, whose jailbreak captivated the counterculture and whose life on the run with...

Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era,...

The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation. Among the spies were...

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025 'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama 'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader...

'MAGNIFICENT!' CAITLIN MORAN 'A riveting read about a pop revolution hiding in plain sight' PETE PAPHIDES 'Very funny and very moving' JUDE ROGERS In 1984, pop came out of the...

In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her...

The book titled A History of Soviet Civilization by the author Andrei Sinyavsky. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will...

A volume which tells the story of cuff links from their first appearance on the scene in the early-19th century until today. More than 200 examples are reproduced, including works...

Part of a series of often controversial biographies of statesmen and women who have shaped the modern world, this book features Franklin Delano Roosevelt who served 12 years in the...

The book titled De Gaulle by the author Julian Jackson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads,Fall of Civilizationsbrilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse....

The book titled Yamato Dynasty: the Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family by the author Sterling Seagrave. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Demon Copperhead : a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first...

A GUARDIAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Fascinating.' NEIL TENNANT ' The missing story of the heart of pop.' JOHNNY MARR 'Superb.' Alexis Petridis 'Dazzling.' GUARDIAN 'So...

THE OLIVE FARM and THE OLIVE SEASON are television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical accounts of a new life in France; about her house Appassionata and the trials and tribulations of...

An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 'Supremely enjoyable . . . With a...

History, both political and literary, was made when W. F. Deedes met Evelyn Waugh in 1935. Both were in Abyssinia to cover a war which many in England regarded with...

A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKY 'After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether...

The book titled The View from the Kremlin by the author Boris Yeltsin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A wonderfully constructed account of bravery and resolve in the face of brutal injustice. In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces...

'Enormously enjoyable' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesExcellent ... illuminates a fascinating and still under-explored period in British youth culture and social history' Jon Savage, New StatesmanWith their draped suits, suede creepers...

On the 6th of February 1958, an aircraft took off from a snowy Munich airport carrying Busby's Babes, one of the most successful teams Manchester United have ever had. Moments...

Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform....

The first complete collection of A.A. Milne's short stories, including several never published before. A.A. Milne's real passion lay beyond Winnie-the-Pooh , as this new prose collection reveals. Collected in...

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B-29 crewman becomes POW in Japan during World War II

The crises--and failures--of modernization in Japan, as seen up close by a resident expert Japan is a nation in crisis, and the crisis goes far beyond its well-known economic plight....

Filled with reminiscences about Australia since World War Two plus William s own anecdotes and observations, THE MAKING OF MODERN AUSTRALIA touches on the celebrations, sorrows and spirit of the...

The Cold War is a vast and complex topic in recent international history. The author of this title has delineated the role of the United States from the global conflict,...

A groundbreaking A-Z appraisal of the work of over 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Africa In recent years Africa s booming art scene has gained substantial...

"A leaking can of paint in hand, the artist strolls out of the gallery and drifts aimlessly through the city, leaving a trail of colour as he goes. So what...

A groundbreaking book that reveals the truth about population levels, and where they will take us in the future. Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic...

This is a PB of the acclaimed "House of Bush House of Saud". Expanded with new material and a new Afterword by Craig Unger, this book reveals new evidence of...

On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought - the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside,...

From the author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven , this piercing, genre-bending debut follows two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war in a stunning...

The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a series of chapters. In the first...

Based on meticulous research in FBI files, Chasing Spies uncovers the FBIAIs role in the most important espionage cases of the cold war years. The book shows how secrecy immunized...

Dominating Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian policy for centuries - now, we are witnessing a genocide. The Russian invasion of Ukraine brought large-scale warfare to Europe, reshaped relations...

A collection of articles, which assess the policies of the Gough Whitlam government, and evaluate how they might be relevant to the ALP.

This volume, a comprehensive study of how the myth and mystique of the Camelot years coincided with the rise of pop art, reveals the pervasive influence that the Kennedy presidency...

Aiping Mu was born to parents prominent in the Communist hierarchy - her father was Political Commissar for the Beijing region and her mother ran one of the city's universities...

The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...

Drawing on vast archival research, Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring and important. 'From 1939 to 1941, with Europe at war and the United States...

A PEOPLE MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE WEEK "Catnip for Ferrante fans." - Boston Globe "Readers will find [ The Lack of Light ] irresistible." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl , delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to...

A must-read collection for all music fans. Delve into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times . From the rock'n'roll pioneers of the...